Tattoo Age: Thom deVita (Part 1/5)
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Tattoo Age is very proud to be featuring Thom deVita. Even though Thom has been tattooing and creating art for almost 50 years, there isn't much information out there about him. He started tattooing in New York City's Lower East Side in the mid 60s-when tattooing was illegal in the city-and quickly began to forge his own style.
Thom drew from a wide variety of infliuences for his tattoos, everything from Pueblo Indian designs to Lord and Taylor shopping bags. He also formed relationships with other American tattooers who were revolutionizing tattooing by bringing in influences that went far beyond the usual array of images found in most American tattoo parlors at the time.
We interviewed Ed Hardy, Nick Bubash, Clayton Patterson, Scott Harrison, Angelo Scotto, John Wyatt, Robert Ryan, and Bubba Reeves to help tell Thom's incredible story. The second of five parts will air next Wednesday. Please enjoy.
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As somebody whos been in the industry for just a little over a year now i really teared up watching this. I do my best to educate myself on tattoo history and it's so sad seeing so many new people who don't really pay it any attention at all.
I am beyond greatful for all the incredable work he did. A true legend.
His story is truly magical, it's like he was blessed with a curse. Amazing artist who tattoos for most of his life, grows old and develops Parkinsons - a tattoo artist's kryptonite.
Instablaster...
Great to see Devite i'm an old 70's client lower east side...
I got serious about tattooing and tattooing history because of this legend , i love to watch this doc , thank you Thom ❤️❤️
utterly brilliant, i feel honored to have watched this.
ive seen this guys pictures constantly i knew he was someone unique and different and now hearing about him and these vids he was an unknown legend he seems like a very humble man... amazed by this guy
Way ahead of his time, a fearless guy.
RIP mr. Thom.
The Basquiat of tattooing.
Thank you for everything, Thom. RIP.
*hits subtitles immediately
Stuff like this is so inspiring to me
The allure of a natural never ceases.
this is the greatest show on the internet also id love to be half as cool as thom when im 80
Big Respect from Germany ❤
Keep these coming pls.
awesome you have a passion for sacred geometry i see
The quality of this aged very well 👌🏾💉
amazing artist! would love to know the songs used if anyone knows???
first scene you can see he has shaking hands, this guy did not spoil any thing.
cheers
Great inspirational story guys. I love it.
I was on my phone checking this out so I couldn't see if other parts were up or not. Know how long till the other parts come up?
A Historic Black Tattoo artist would make a great story.
ThesisOriginals it actually wasn’t too common or they only tattooed other black people. It became more common in the 80’s
Yes!
@4:08 Conrad from Folsom city ink, small world man
LIFE ARTIST
Man...I had to chuckle at the Pandas....this guy is awesome :)
Rest in peace mr. deVita
I agree !
Tattoo Age: Nikko Hurtado!!!! PLEASE MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!
11.34 right hand. That's nice piece!
we all (artist) no mater what color we are.
2024/ BCK HERE AGAIN REST IN ART OF HYROGLIFIC ART, DAVITA, U & UR BARBER CHAIR LIGHT GREEN I BELIEVE, TRUE HONOR..🕊️🕊️🕊️
true that. its hard as a young aspiring tattooer as few people want to take you seriously. and rightly they shouldnt because there are way too many half ass hacks that dont give a shit about tattooing getting into it and i can see why they would be inclined to include me in there because of my age. would love to see your tattoos man (especially the saint michael). do you have any photos online?
Next Wednesday?!?!?!?! AAAAWwwww :(
Máster!!!
Anyone know the name of the song at 1:40?
Tattoos are cool but some people juts overdo it and make it look wasted.
I wonder, can he get that medical thing implanted to stop his shaking? Money issue? Not main stream yet? I've seen it work on a gut but maybe that was a volunteer testing it. It would be nice to set up a fundraiser so he could get the device, stop shaking, and be able to tatoo again. I know they said he's 80, but he hasn't stop following his passion so who can put a value on life? On time?
He reminds me of christian bale
while this might be true for some people with tats it's definitely not true for all of them. i certainly didn't get mine so i get to talk about them, i got them for myself. some people put their art on their walls. i put mine into my skin.
Rip
read our tumblr is the most 2012 thing ive seen
R.I.P. Bubba
Iam pretty sure his using bandaids to put hi pictures up! Rip divita
guy*
I hate to see folk shake like that!
We're all heading there
Neutral Film don't do coke
it can if ur refering to a boss but if someone is that judgemental you dont wanna work there in the frist place.my neck is covered in tattoos and getting work isnt that diffcult or a gf. so explain how its biting my ass later on in life? cuz i dont really see much of one
This is why ink master needs to go away and stay dead. All these museum minded clowns that have one tattoo and look at every tattoo line like wannabe artists who think they know it all based on a series. Ami James didn’t ruin the industry, ink master did. Such a backwards show….you shouldn’t judge people with tattoos, then let’s judge them under the narrative of competition and feed it to the masses. Creating big headed people in the industry that think they can judge a tattoo after watching that silly show. Remember they are for you and no one else, as long as you like it, that’s what matters. Thom made art from the soul. There is nothing wrong with a solid wonky tattoo that has more life then a pressurized piece to please others. Cool looking tats before fine art. Great Tattoo magazines in the early 2000s have awesome pieces that most people consider bad because of shows like Ink Master. Things evolve naturally and it would have. Things just got pushed way to fast in the wrong ways, just my opinion. To much crying over actual nice tattoos. Never happy even with nice stuff.
Anil Gupta too.
Are you a member of the anti-opinion police Kenny?
italian blood kick again...
i feel sorry for you, bro
Does anybody else think that Thom seems like he did a little too much acid when he was younger?
That first tattoo artist featured. Large thick glasses and uncontrollably shaky hands lol !
He's a legend you dipshit. He doesn't tattoo anymore.
lol
respect the old man u douge bag
EVERYONE has tattoos nowadays lol
dumb-a-dumb-e-dumb-o-doo-da-pa-da-ba-pap
Tattoos are so expensive now, it's criminal
Actually tattoos were so inexpensive back than that it was criminal, people have to live, raise families, pay bills, art that's in your body forever, specially good art, should be expensive, people pay 500, 600, 700 bucks for a phone that will last 2 years, and complain about 1000 bucks for a 20 inch beautiful piece of art they will carry the rest of their lives, deVita was still struggling to make a living at 80 years old because he was paid shit during his life, never had the chance to actually lay down and rest a bit even in his old age, that shouldn't happen, of course some take this to another level, charging 1000 bucks an hour for ok tattoos, run away from those, but a great tattoo should not be inexpensive.
tattoo artists don't exist since this isn't art.
Musical artists don’t exist since this isn’t art
See how stupid that sounds. Sounds they same way when you say it.
i'm sorry but if someone records one song or even a million bad ones i'm not considering him a musician. if someone creates clothes and they're ugly and uncomfortable i'm not calling him a taylor. if someone creates a thousand bad logos on a pc i'm not calling him a designer. if someone draws poorly i'm not calling him an artist. this guy has no talent, period. artist is a title you have to earn. if you use it for everything and everyone it means nothing. that's why this crap isn't art.
8:29 didn’t know joe pesci tattooed
he looks like Trevor Phillips from GTA V in the thumbnail.
there I said it.
He's the Burgess Meredith look-alike
It's the mark of humanity boom he's talking to his tattoo guy after he that's there brains out jus like Trevor would with his foot in gta5
I have 5 or more pieces from deVita from the 70's east 4th St. NYC the home of the thirty dollar tattoo... so glad to see him alive and well
@One Love untrue
I was a young teenager in the 80's and also went to his east 4th st location in NYC. Devita did what Ed Hardy did, and brought it to life in the 80's
I got tattooed by him on Christmas morning in 1980 when it was illegal in Manhattan . And yes it cost $30.00. This documentary was a great find 🙂
i was very fortunate to have been tatooed on numerous occassions at thoms lower east side spot all my tats done by him were 20$ each and to this day and were talking 20 plus years ago.the colors and detail are the best i have.hats off to you thom your the og of tatoo artists!!!!!!
i keep coming one or two times every year to watch all the parts Thom deVita was amazing human and artist .
RIP. One of the greatest, a true legend
R.I.P to one of the true originals. There can be no 'History of Tattooing' without mentioning Thom DeVita. One of my all time heroes. Rest easy, chief
He is the proof that tattoos do look good when you're old, contrary to what people usually say when you say you're getting a tattoo.
Man he's held up pretty well for 80
R.I.P. Thom, you will always be remembered
And now there honored to have you ... Aaaaaaa let me finish! It sounds cocky to a normal person .. but to a true artist . That is absolutely a humble thing to say .. an artist as his or her biggest critique. The world is a canvas ... Every wall Every brick ... Every slab of Wood.. is your God given right .. to create. He moved me in such a way that I sacrificed my wrist in his honor I tattooed a scratchy pattern of his Asian brick design on my left arm because of these vids ... My grandmother was his age and she played piano and wrote poetry and when I was a young man I cooked her favorite soup smoked cigs ... Drank coffee and would drive my mustang to her house and chill ... And just listen to the good ole years from her mouth because where I come from .. elders are key their the tree to pay the attention to. That's all we got as a whole youth .. the path in witch we came from. So yes not to be so sappy but damn... getting the honor to hear from your (tree) as an acorn .. that's one of the true meanings of life... God bless and listen to the old they'll steer you in the right direction.😎
What's the song at the very beginning?
01:05
I FEEL HONORED TO HAVE GOTTEN MY FIRST TATTOO FRM THIS LEGEND. NVR HAD IT RETOUCHED IT WAS ON $30.00 MY GIRLFRIENDS N MYSELF MADE IT A GIRL DAY'S OUT N 8 OF US GOT TATTOOS THT RAINEY DAY DWN ON THE LOWER EASTSIDE. GLAD TO SEE HE IS STILL IS DOING HIS THING.
He´s the Freud of tattoos. They were´nt great at their area, but they made the world look upon tattoos/psychology as something different then it had before.
This is my fave series vice do, espesh the Valerie episode, can't wait for part 2 :D
Dear Lord, if I can be like this man making art every day and doing what he loves, then I will have lived a good life.
Maybe for his time it was good but for me it looks horrible
Haha I love the pandas! That's so cute:)
Reminds me how sad I am that I never got an FE Craig tattoo before he died ❤
I remember Tom gave me a Bundle of heroin that someone drop inside his shop I remember the stamp of the heroin till this day it's called Bag n" Bag" red stamp . This was 1988 lower Eastside was the capital of heroin in New York City back in the 80s . He gave it to me because I didn't like the pain of the needle.
I would tell anyone to watch all the parts of this
I love tattoos but I’m not too familiar with the history…could someone explain what separates this from other tattoos that would be considered as “bad” or “amateur” ?
I always dug him.. My first tattoo I got in 1998... He is one of the best..
People that dont like tattoos tend to forget. I dont give a fuck whether you like my tattoos or not, i like them and thats all that matters!
little did he probably know that using cannabis oil could stop his shaking
DeVita is like the Burroughs of tattoos
the burgh!!!!!!!!
Vice your Docos are inspiring and I love them
"im workin' on a bunch o' panda bears" hahahaha brilliant
haha 2001 pandas! :) love it
First :)
What the people say about deVita often contradicts what he says about himself.
#mauricioteodoro🥰🐲🐉🥰🐲🐉
After watching this I’ve come to the conclusion that Thom DeVita is the Grandfather of the BLAST OVER TATTOO craze that we are seeing 2024 🤘🏆
No it doesn't. Maybe if you get poorly done tattoos, but even so it's not your body so don't worry about it.
devita is Awesome! a true pioneer. can't wait for part 2. ....also...i think i caught a little bit of my home town(Pittsburgh) in there at the end, pretty sure those were the fort Pitt tunnel's heading into Downtown.
the symbol that we know as the swastika, has lots of diffferent meaning when varied slightly. in hindu and buddhist cultures it can mean peace and greater spiritual force.
He lines with a shader
love this series
what is the name of the track which starts at 13:57?